1941- Atlantic Charter 1944- Percentages Agrrement between Churchill and Stalin 1945- Yalta Conference 1945- Hitler commits suicide
V-E Day
Victory of British Labour Party over Conservatives
Potsdam Conference
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
UN charter ratified
Nuremberg Trials
1946- Establishment of French Fourth Republic
Churchill delivers Iron Curtain Speech
1947- Kennan writes the Long Telegram
Truman Doctrine
Introduction of the Marshall Plan
1948- Break between the Soviets and Yugoslavia
Establishment of the state of israel
National Health Services in Great Britain
1949- Formation of NATO
Berlin Airlift leads to ending of blockade after 11 months
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany
" " Democratic " "
1951- Establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community
1953- Death of Stalin
1954- France sufferes defeat in Indochina
Algerian revolt begins
1955- Establishment of the Warsaw Pact
1956- Soviets send in troops to put down Hungarian uprising
1957- Ghana declares independence
Signing of the Treaty of Rome establing the EEC
1958- French plebiscite leads to creation of the 5th Republic
1961- East Germany beging construction of the wall dividing Berlin
1962- France vetoes British attempt to join the EC
Cuban missile crisis
1968- wave of student protests
Prague spring
1969- Willy Brandt becomes German Chancellor
1972- Irish troubles begin with the shooting of 13 catholic peace marchers of Bloody Sunday
1973- oil crisis
1978- Red brigades kidnap and murder former prime minister aldo moro
1979- Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister
1981- Francois Mitterand elected french president
1985- Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the soviet union
1989- end of communist control in eastern europe
1990- reunification of germany
1991- end of the soviet union
1992- Maastricht Treaty
violence in yugoslavia
1997- tony blair becomes prime minister
2002- introduction of the euro
2004- entry into NATO of former warsaw pact nations
1944- Percentages Agrrement between Churchill and Stalin
1945- Yalta Conference
1945- Hitler commits suicide
V-E Day
Victory of British Labour Party over Conservatives
Potsdam Conference
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
UN charter ratified
Nuremberg Trials
1946- Establishment of French Fourth Republic
Churchill delivers Iron Curtain Speech
1947- Kennan writes the Long Telegram
Truman Doctrine
Introduction of the Marshall Plan
1948- Break between the Soviets and Yugoslavia
Establishment of the state of israel
National Health Services in Great Britain
1949- Formation of NATO
Berlin Airlift leads to ending of blockade after 11 months
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany
" " Democratic " "
1951- Establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community
1953- Death of Stalin
1954- France sufferes defeat in Indochina
Algerian revolt begins
1955- Establishment of the Warsaw Pact
1956- Soviets send in troops to put down Hungarian uprising
1957- Ghana declares independence
Signing of the Treaty of Rome establing the EEC
1958- French plebiscite leads to creation of the 5th Republic
1961- East Germany beging construction of the wall dividing Berlin
1962- France vetoes British attempt to join the EC
Cuban missile crisis
1968- wave of student protests
Prague spring
1969- Willy Brandt becomes German Chancellor
1972- Irish troubles begin with the shooting of 13 catholic peace marchers of Bloody Sunday
1973- oil crisis
1978- Red brigades kidnap and murder former prime minister aldo moro
1979- Margaret Thatcher becomes prime minister
1981- Francois Mitterand elected french president
1985- Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of the soviet union
1989- end of communist control in eastern europe
1990- reunification of germany
1991- end of the soviet union
1992- Maastricht Treaty
violence in yugoslavia
1997- tony blair becomes prime minister
2002- introduction of the euro
2004- entry into NATO of former warsaw pact nations